Republicans and Democrats disagree on all manners of things. Surveys suggest they often don’t even like each other, and voting data shows they each commonly live among like-minded Americans. But in this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, political scientists Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan suggest that focusing on the left/right divide in American … Read more
Political scientists Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan join the podcast to discuss their new book “The Other Divide.” They suggest that focusing on only the left/right divide in American politics is reductive. By doing so, we are missing another important divide, one that may actually run counter to the idea that America is hopelessly … Read more
February 9, 2022, Beijing, Hebei, China: Audrey Alice King (HKG) during the alpine skiing women’s slalom of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Yanqing Alpine Skiing Centre. (David G McIntyre/ZUMA Press Wire) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly … Read more
In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how Americans are feeling about the pandemic and the types of restrictions they do and don’t support to stop the spread of COVID-19. They also talk about some recent big developments in the redistricting process happening around the country now.
We are approaching the two year mark of living with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Although the Omicron wave is receding, the virus is unlikely to just go away and people are unhappy and angry – about COVID-19 and more. In polls more Americans say they are unhappy in their own lives, about … Read more
Republican state lawmakers are abandoning a core economic policy in order to fight against the Biden administration’s push for mass vaccination. Six GOP-led states have made workers eligible for unemployment insurance if they’re fired or they quit after refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and Republicans are pushing similar bills in another 11 states, according … Read more
Proud Boys gathered in front of the Oregon State Capitol during a protest in support of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol January 8, 2022 in Salem, Oregon. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for only $2 a month! Thank you for signing up The nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thanks … Read more
Latino voters swung by eight percentage points toward President Trump in the last election, the biggest swing of any racial or ethnic group in the electorate. Last April, the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast spoke to the team at equis research — a political data company that focuses on Latino voters — about What exactly happened. When … Read more
Decades of polls have found that, in general, more Americans sympathize with the Democratic Party than with the Republican Party. This advantage was so enduring that it has become common wisdom in American politics. But one recent Gallup poll shows that Republicans are taking the lead over Democrats, 47 percent to 42 percent, in how … Read more
US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is planning to retire at the end of the court’s current term, clearing the way for President Biden to appoint a new justice. Biden said during a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina that if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court, … Read more